CFC103: Congratulations

It's CAS-ual Fridays time! 

I hope you'll play along with this week's challenge!

CFC103: Congratulations!

Make a CAS card with a congratulations type sentiment!

I've read before that it's proper manners to offer a woman "Best Wishes" and a man "Congratulations" when getting married. Have you heard that? Something about the man gets the "congrats" for "winning the lady", like he's the lucky one, and the woman gets the "best wishes" for future happiness. So that's why I went with "Best Wishes" here. Wouldn't want to offend any of my lady friends! ha! Seems like we always have plenty of young, female teachers getting married at school, so I know this card will come in handy!

Are you ready to play along? 

This week's sponsor is CAS-ual Fridays Stamps 

and the winner will get to choose a free stamp set! Woot! Woot! 

I can't wait to see your creative take on "Congratulations" cards!

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Hugs and happy stamping!

CFC102: Red, White, & Blue

It's CAS-ual Fridays time!

I hope you'll play along with this week's CFC#102: Red, White & Blue...

create a CAS project using the colors red, white, and blue!

The winner of this week's challenge will receive a $25 gift certificate 

from our sponsor, Simon Says Stamp!

I can't wait to see your amazing red, white, and blue creations! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

A Corky Hello!

Happy Wednesday! 

I'm popping in with a quick share of a card I made last weekend at my retreat! One of my paper-crafting friends gave me the "hello" die cut piece made from thin cork, LOVE it!

I could NOT remember what challenge I made it for...until just now...and the challenge is over! Oops! Oh well! It was for the Fusion #7 challenge! hehe!

I hope you're having a great week! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Thank You So Much

Happy Sunday! Hope you've had a great weekend! I was super lucky and attended a weekend crop with my girlfriends. I'll be back later to share some cards we exchanged in a swap. They have some mad skills!

Here's a card I made this morning with this great CAS(E) this Sketch #28. Nothing too creative, a very "literal" use of the sketch, but hey, it's a great sketch, so why mess with it?! hehe! I used the great Written on Ribbon stamp set and die from WPlus9 Design. 

I am so behind on spreading the bloggy love, but I hope to catch up this week! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

CFC101: Stamp on DP!

It's CAS-ual Fridays time! Woot! Woot!

Come play along with us this week for CFC101: Stamp on DP...

create a clean and simple project stamping on designer paper! 

If you're like me, you've got a big stash of designer paper to choose from, 

so this was a lot of fun!I used the CAS-ual Fridays Stamp set Stop. 

So many fun possibilities with this one! 

This week's sponsor is our very own CAS-ual Fridays Stamps! Woot! Woot!

The winner will get to select a stamp set of their choice!

I can't wait to check out your inky creations!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Happy Mother's Day!

Hope you're having a wonderful Mother's Day!

Here are two card I sent to my wonderful mom and mother-in-law. 

The one above is my version of a card from the Stampin' Up! Spring Catalog. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Hugs and happy stamping!

Congrats, New Teacher!

Happy Monday!

A teacher at school ordered this special card for a soon-to-be teacher. Good timing to share it, since it's Teacher Appreciation Week! I used the fun Unscripted Sketches #209. 

Just 22 more days of school, hard to believe! I just checked my calendar to verify and I counted the weekdays by 10s instead of by 5s. That's how you know it's time to call it a night and head to bed! That was terrifying! lol!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

CFC100: Top 10 Tic Tac Toe

                    

It's CAS-ual Fridays time!!

Are you ready for a BIG celebration?!

It's the 2-year anniversary of the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge and our 100th challenge!

So to create this week's challenge, Michele took the Top 10 most popular challenges to date and put them into a Tic Tac Toe Board! 

Awesome, right?! 

Check out CFC100: Top 10 Tic Tac Toe!

Since it's a big celebration, the prizes are BIG too!

Our sponsor, Ellen Hutson, will give a $25 gift certificate to the winner AND a $15 gift certificate to the 4 VIPs!! 

Plus, Michele at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps will gift 

a stamp set to each of the 5 Contenders! 

That's ten prizes total! Woot! Woot!

This is not a week to take off, people!

I can't wait to see your creation! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

(p.s. Amy, I finally stitched in colored thread because of you! *smile*)

Recipe

Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays Stamps Bold Wishes

Cardstock: SU Crumb Cake, Teresa Collins He Said, She Said paper, Amy Tangerine Ready Set Go polka dot paper.

Ink: SU Early Espresso

Accessories: SU Cupcake Punch, Creative Memories Corner Rounder, Heidi Swapp Mustard Color Shine Spritz, Janome Sew Mini, pink thread.

Happy Graduation

Happy Sunday! Hope you are having a good weekend!

I needed to make some graduation cards for a coworker, so I jumped in first with this Retro Sketch #61. Isn't it a great sketch? I think I'll need to use it again. Thank goodness for my SRM Stickers, they came in super handy for these cards! She wanted something "glittery" for one card, so I used my Cuttlebug Tag Sale Alphabet die with some red glitter cardstock for the card above. The card below uses some Thickers that came in an old Scarlet Lime kit. Whoo! Hoo! Opening some old kits! hehe!

The card below is for her son, who is graduating from UNT. I was cruising through my Feedly on my iPad and saw this great Stars and Stripes card by Kathy Martin, so used it as my layout inspiration. Those toothpicks in the kitchen come in super handy! hehe! Thanks, Kathy! *smile*

 Well, back to laundry and school prep. As we left school Friday we got some devastating news about a principal change effective immediately, so I've been sitting around stunned and mournful all weekend. I did drag myself to a kid's soccer game, and just keep reminding myself: it's about the children. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!

Happy Birthday, Michele!

Woot! Woot! It's time for a Birthday Blog Hop for one Amazeballs woman, Michele Gros! 

You probably know her better as the founder of the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge blog (where you probably saw from last week's challenge that her birthday was coming up this week!) and the founder and creator of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps! 

The Girl Fridays decided we needed to show her some extra birthday love today because we are so crazy about her! If you are following along the hop, you just came from Pamela's blog. That girl is crazy, artsy talented! 

I loved the card I made for our birthday challenge, but thought I would kick it up a notch for Michele's "official" card. You've probably seen Julie's amazing tutorial for a new washi tape shaker card, or at least some cool cards made using the technique, so I gave it a go using the Amazeballs stamp set. Instead of using sequins for my shaker bits, I used the enamel dots from My Mind's Eye. I stuck a few down permanently so they'd line up under the stamped circles, but I left the rest "free" to be shaken. I dipped the enamel dots in clear embossing powder, then dusted them off, so they wouldn't be sticky on the back anymore.

Hope you enjoy the card and our blog hop for Michele! From here, you'll want to head on over to Leigh Ann's blog to check out her fantabulous birthday card! If you get lost along the way...or want to venture out on your own...here are the hop stops: 

Leigh Ann
Sanketi
Alice
Kelly
Jingle
Lorena
Lindsay
Sylvia
Deb
Jocelyn
AJ
Pamela
Angie

The Ink Squad girls from CAS-ual Fridays are also hosting a blog hop for Michele! Is she loved or what?! You can follow along with them too: Dana, Karen, Kelly, Laurie, Lynn, Michelle, Piali, and Virginia! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and happy stamping!